Synology 5-Bay DS1520+ $700 Without Disks on Amazon Synology – Not Just a Bunch of Disks When people look at the pricing of a Synology, the sticker shock is really shocking. I think there’s a couple of reasons why. The enclosures themselves are expensive. Filling the enclosures with drives is very expensive because you have […]
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NC #840 Photos Backup Update, High Contrast Focus on Apple TV, TextSniper for macOS, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 13, 2021, and this is show number 840. mp3 download Follow up from Last Week about Photos Backup Last week I told you about how I was […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 6, 2021, and this is show number 839. Hey, should we spend the next 40 minutes or so talking about what we hope will come out tomorrow […]
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How to Back Up iCloud Photos When Your Only Mac Can’t Store Originals
ICloud Photo Library Optimize Storage My friend Diane was visiting her granddaughter, and, as one does, she was giving tech support to her daughter-in-law. She wanted to bounce ideas off of someone so she brought me in with the “phone a friend” option. The problem to be solved was one I hadn’t given much thought […]
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Nuke and Pave 2021 – All New Enhancements!
No Turning Back Now If you’ve been following me for years, then you already know that I’m a huge proponent of nuking and paving computers. By nuke and pave, I mean a clean install of the operating system, but the truly nuke version of clean. I try to do this every year “or so” where […]
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Making Progress Learning the Basics of Synology
As I mentioned a while ago, my aged Drobo 5N died after many years of good service. The 5N, for the last few years, had the role of backup NAS to the newer Drobo 5N2. When the 5N died, I did what I’ve been itching to do for quite some time – I bought a […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Save Images from your Contacts – by Shai Yammanee
Shai here in very sunny Las Vegas, and I have a little tip that I discovered and promised Allison that I would share with everyone. First, what was the problem to be solved? A little while back I was having dinner with Allison and Steve and mentioned that I came across an issue that I […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, May 10, 2020, and this is show number 783. Next week is the 15-year show and I’ve gotten so many great audio recordings. They’ve really warmed my heart. […]
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I accidentally deleted my photos while trying to “back them up”. But to explain why this wasn’t as big of a disaster as it could have been here is some background. I enjoy photography, I use Lightroom to organize and edit the RAW files that I have accumulated over many years. I have a 2014 […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #758 Switch to Carbon Copy Cloner, Tour of SpaceX, Fix to 1Password Update, Security Bits
This week I’ll tell you why I switched from SuperDuper! To Carbon Copy Cloner for my local backups and then give you a walk through of Carbon Copy Cloner and why I love it. I’ll then regale you with the story of how we actually got to go on a tour of SpaceX! I’ll give […]
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